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When: Around
01:30 hours on June 30, 1999 |
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Where: 363-1,
Baekmi-ri, Seosin-myeon, Hwaseong-gun,
Gyeonggi-do |
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Damage of
lives: Deaths - 23 / The wounded - 7 |
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Damage of
properties: £Ü72,000,000 |
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Cause for
the fire: Catching flea fire had a contact
with its neighboring inflammable materials
(such as gas lighter, paper, clothes,
etc.) so the fire broke out. |
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Outline
of the accident |
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Sea Land Youth Center, a 3-storied
building located at Baekmi-ri, Seosin-myeon,
Hwaseong-gun, Gyeonggi-do, had a fire
on June 30, which resulted in 23 people¡¯s
dying (including 19 kids of Somang Kindergarten
at Munjeong-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul).
Around 01:35 hours, the flame, together
with the explosive noise, shot up and
in the twinkling of an eye, it spread
to the whole lodging building. The witness
said, ¡°When I ran to the room number
301 as soon as children¡¯s screams were
heard, I found it filled with smoke
already.
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Around 02:30 hours, one hour later
after the fire broke out, 50 fire trucks
from Suwon and Anyang came to the site
to put out the fire and to save lives.
However, the building was too old and
the mobilization of the fire trucks
was too late so when they arrived at
the site, the whole building was enveloped
in flames already.
Most of the kids got out of it hurriedly,
but the kids of Somang Kindergarten
sleeping in room number 301 and 302,
were suffocated to die.
The firefighters completed to put out
the fire around 05:00 hours and commenced
to find out the dead bodies and the
wounded from the collapsed building
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The ceremony for the
fifth anniversary to cherish the memory
of the deceased people by the fire in
Sea Land. With the fifth anniversary
of a fire breaking out in Sea Land coming
in, a boy is donating a flower at the
ceremony to cherish the memory of the
deceased people held at Children¡¯s Safety
Park located at Macheon-dong, Songpa-gu
on June 30, 2004.
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